How steam wallet code works?

Product description

Subscription Length:$20 Gift Card
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Format:Card

Valve- Steam 20 dollar Wallet Card. Instant Access to Thousands of Games. Enjoy exclusive deals, cloud saves, automatic game updates and other great perks. Create and Share Content. Gift your friends, trade items, and even create new content for games in the Steam Workshop. Help shape the future of your favourite games. Join the Community. Meet new people, join game groups, form clans, chat in-game and more! With over 100 million potential friends (or enemies), the fun never stops. Entertainment Anywhere. Whether you're on a PC, Mac, Linux box, mobile device, or even your television, you can enjoy the benefits of Steam. Take the fun with you.

Like others here, Steam was giving me the long error message about my code not being 'activated' and that it may take 'several hours' for the retailer to do so. Turns out I only had to wait two days for it to take. And I was just about to contact Steam Support to report a 'damaged' wallet code with the scanned image of the back of the card. Literally. I had the image ready to attach but then thought I'd try just one more time and to my surprise the code was accepted.

If you are still having trouble and just cannot wait any longer, try this:While using the Steam client, open the 'Help' menu and select 'Steam Support'.Then select the box titled "Steam Client or other Steam Features".And then "Other Features".And now "Steam Wallet Code or Gift Card"And finally "My wallet code is damaged".Wasn't that fun? Now, read the instructions and when you are ready you can click the box at the bottom to "Contact Steam Support".Good luck! I hope it works out for you!

I would have included a direct link to the Steam Support web page but evidently Amazon removes them.[...]